Re: [flashrom] disaster

[Julio Barrios]

Hi Carl-Daniel,

Sorry about not sending my message in the correct way.

I have now peeled off the sticker. This is what is on the flash chip:

iTE
IT8718F-S
2M24MA L

I hope this means something to you.

Best regarsd,

Julio

On 20 May 2010 11:50, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <
[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi Julio,
>
> it seems [e-mail] was left out of the conversation by
> accident. I've added it back, please use the "reply all" button in the
> future.
>
> On 20.05.2010 12:12, Julio Barrios wrote:
> > Hi Carl-Daniel, Joseph and Michael,
> >
> > Many thanks for your replies. I very much appreciate it. I'm not sure if
>
> a
> > flash chip is the same as the BIOS chip (I'm a complete newbie here and
>
> am
> > just learning a bit, and destroying computers along the way it seems
>
> LOL!).
> > Anyway, my BIOS is a Phoenix D686 and my PC is a Dell Inspiron 530.
>
> "Phoenix D686" is probably written on a sticker. Can you peel off the
> sticker and tell us what's written on the BIOS flash chip?
> > By the look of things, I guess that I will need to buy a new motherboard.
>
> If
> > that is the case, then I will need to buy one that is compatible with
>
> linux
> > because I'm not prepared to give up Ubuntu and go back to Windows.
> >
> > If you need any more information so that you can help me, please let me
> > know.
>
> Some people/companies in the UK offer services to reflash mainboards.
> That might be what you want, but I'm not sure if the shipping cost is
> worth it.
> Besides that, some vendors might offer top hat flash solutions for your
> board, but I'm not 100% sure about this.
> > Again, guys, thanks a lot.
> >
> > Julio
>
> Good luck!
>
> Regards,
> Carl-Daniel
> > On 20 May 2010 09:45, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger <
> > [e-mail]> wrote:
> > > Hi Julio,
> > >
> > > please note that the method in the link can destroy your mainboard if
> > > your flash chip uses a different interface (very likely). See below for
> > > details.
> > >
> > > On 20.05.2010 09:37, Carl-Daniel Hailfinger wrote:
> > > > On 20.05.2010 00:44, Joseph Smith wrote:
> > > > > On 05/19/2010 06:38 PM, Michael Karcher wrote:
> > > > > > IIRC, we recently had a link showing two stacked flash chips (but I
> > > > > > think they were parallel, not LPC/FWH) with some control signals only
> > > > > > connected to the top one - the idea was to mount a working flash chip
> > >
> > > on
> > > > > > top of the one with damaged/wrong contents without removing the lower
> > > > > > one from the system. Anyone knows what I'm talking about and still
>
> has
> > > > > > the link?
> > > > >
> > > > > http://www.coreboot.org/pipermail/linuxbios/2007-April/020384.html
> > > >
> > > > The back-to-back socket solution (sometimes also marketed as top hat
> > > > flash) would be the one which does not require soldering on the board
> > > > and thus has a lower risk.
> > >
> > > The best way to figure this out is to find out which flash chip you have
> > > and tell us. Then we can try to find out which pins need to be bent and
> > > disconnected.
> > >
> > > Regards,
> > > Carl-Daniel